Provides employment and training, residential care and accommodation, holiday hotels, grants and welfare benefits service, information and advice to blind and partially sighted people.

Deafblind UK
100 Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1DY
Tel: 01733 358100
Fax:01733 358356
E-mail: Jackie@deafblind.demon.co.uk
Web address: www.dbuktechnology.demon.co.uk

Provides information and advice on dual sensory loss. Teaches and encourages touch-based communication systems. Services include social activities for deafblind people, rehabilitation services and holiday flat and independent living accommodation.

Gift of Thomas Pocklington
5 Castle Row, Horticultural Place, London, W4 4JQ
Tel: 0208 9950880
Fax: 0208 9879965
E-mail: pocklingtontrust@btconnect.com

Provides quality housing care and support services for adult visually handicapped people. Also supports a housing scheme for younger people with visual impairment in London.

Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
Hillfields, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3YG
Tel: 0118 9835555
Helpline: 0870 600 2323
Fax: 0118 9835433
E-mail: guidedogs@gdba.org.uk
Web address: www.gdba.org.uk

Enhances the mobility, independence and quality of life of sight-impaired people, by providing guide dogs, rehabilitation and other services.

Henshaw's Society for the Blind
John Derby House, 88-92 Talbot Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0GS
Tel: 0161 8721234
Fax: 0161 8489889
E-mail: Henshaws@johnderby.freeserve.co.uk

Provides a wide range of services for people of all ages who are visually impaired, including education and training, community housing and support and nursing care.

International Federation of Guide Dog Schools for the Blind
Hillfields, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3YG
Tel: 0118 9835555
Fax: 0118 9833572
E-mail: guidedogs@gdba.org.uk

Rehabilitation services for blind people worldwide.

Jewish Care
Stuart Young House, 221 Golders Green Road, London, NW11 9DQ
Tel:0208 9222000
Helpline: 0208 9222222
Fax: 0208 9221998
E-mail: info@jcare.org

Provides services for elderly, mentally ill, visually impaired and physically disabled people and their families. Serving the Jewish community in London and the Home Counties.

National Federation of Families with Visually Impaired Children
C/o Queen Alexandra College, 49 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham,
B17 9TG
Tel: 0121 4279800
Helpline: 0121 4285038
Fax: 0121 4279800

Provides practical help, support and information to families with visually impaired children. Offers information on all aspects of visual impairment.

OPSIS (National Association for the Education, Training and Support of Blind and Partially Sighted People)
C/o Queen Alexandra College, 49 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham,
B17 9TG
Tel: 0121 4285037
Fax: 0207 6083171
E-mail: opsis@dircon.co.uk

A voluntary partnership of eight independent charities, providing education and training, employment support, sheltered workshops, regional and local resource centres, rehabilitation services, residential and hospital-based services, family services and advocacy support, counselling, day centres, information services, leisure and holiday activities and community housing for the visually impaired.

Partially Sighted Society
PO Box 322, Doncaster, DN1 2XA
Tel: 01302 323132
Fax: 01302 368998

Advises and directly assists partially sighted people in their daily lives.

Royal London Society for the Blind
Dorton House, Wilderness Avenue, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 0ED
Tel: 01732 592500
Fax: 01732 592506
Web address: www.rlsb.org.uk

Provides education, training and employment support for visually impaired people.

Royal National Institute for the Blind
224 Great Portland Street, London, W1N 6AA
Tel: 0207 3881266
Helpline:0345 669999
Fax:0207 3882034
E-mail: rnib@rnib.org.uk
Web address: www.rnib.org.uk

Its objective is to challenge blindness and to achieve a world in which blind and partially sighted people enjoy the same rights, freedoms and responsibilities and quality of life as people who are fully sighted.

Sense (National Deafblind and Rubella Association)
11-13 Clifton Terrace, London, N4 3SR
Tel: 0207 2727774
Fax: 0207 2726012
E-mail: enquiries@sense.org.uk
Web address: www.sense.org.uk

Provides advice, support and information for deafblind people, their families, carers and relevant professionals. Services include residential care in community group homes, individually tailored education programmes, rehabilitation services and respite provision, including specialist holidays.

St Dunstan's - Caring for men and women blinded in the service of their country
12-14 Harcourt Street, London, W1A 4XB
Tel: 0207 7235021
Fax: 0207 2626199

Provides rehabilitation, training and lifelong welfare for men and women whose loss of sight is due to service in both war and peace. Assists in the provision of medical, welfare and housing to members, their families and widows.

Talking Newspaper Association of the UK
National Recording Centre, Heathfield, East Sussex, TN21 8DB
Tel: 01435 866102
Fax:01435 865422
E-mail: info@tnauk.globalnet.co.uk
Web address: www.tnauk.org.uk

Provides magazines, newspapers and other information on audio tape, computer disk and CD-ROM for visually impaired and disabled people.

Vision Aid
22a Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4AP
Tel: 01204 531882
Fax: 01204 394218

Offers support to families and children, including parent support and counselling, home visits, phone links and loan of hi-tech educational equipment.

Vision Homes Association
153 Warstone Lane, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 6NZ
Tel: 0121 2332290
Fax: 0121 2332291
E-mail: vha@freeuk.com

Provides permanent residential accommodation and ongoing support to visually impaired people.